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Zubengforge Tamahagene

Finely i got my self a Tamahagene knife
I was just looking for a knife to test my stones and try to polish Tamahagene (home made steel) knife.
So i send Bob email if he had one cheap Demo knife that was not polished in stock.
And he had

First i thought that shape was very wired and ugly, but sins i just will use it for display and test i just ordered it !
Knife came very fast and Bob was very helpful !!!

I wanted to polish it with only stones without any sandpaper or compounds, i learned a lot from this polish, it looks very amazing now and shape is not odd at all, like i thought it will be, actually it is very practical and very nice to use ! Its suji, gyuto hybrid

I started with coarse Aoto, fine Aoto, Ohira suita, Atago kiita then finished with Nakayama fingerstones.
I think that now i am a lot better polisher ))))
Here is pics !
Test of cutting will come later with video !

Yes it is time consuming
But this time i did not go for perfection like do when i polish.
I just tried to erase every scratches from privies stones. It helped a lot that knife came perfectly flat !
and i tried to cross the scratch patterns, on big stones i polished with parallel scratches and on fingerstones i did with horizontal. And it worked pretty well !

Video

I made video of sharpening and cutting with this knife.

I must say its not the best cutter geometry on this knife is very bad !
Its need a lot of thinning before it will be useable.
Hardness of the steel is not grate ether it will not scratch glass and feels relatively soft i say 58 to 60 HRC
I dont know if you can see in the vidseo but at last i cut with Shigefusa suji that is same thinness as this gyuto but is much much better cutter !
It is hard to beat Shigefusas geometry anyway !! He makes just best cutters out there

Still i do not regret that i bought this knife its more for its beauty and trying out the steel i bought it so i am very very happy anyway :biggrin2: